Filing-cabinet.



V. G. GILBREATH & S. T. WILLIAMSON.

FILING CABINET.

1,140,589. Patented May 25,1915.

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V. G. GILBREATH & S. T. WILLIAMSON.

FILING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3, 1914.

1 ,140,589. Patented May 25, 1915.

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FILING-entrain Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedMay 25, 1915.

Application med January 3,1914. Serial No. 810,181.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that we, VICTOR G. GILBREATH and "SAMUEL T. Wrnmhrsombitizens of the United States, residing at Seattle, in-the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filing-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to structures of the above character and it has for its primary aim to provide a construction which will be durable, facilitate the handling of tracings, drawings or sheets of any character, and operate efficiently in performing its intended functions.

A further object resides in the provision of a filing device which supports the records .in a vertical position.

Other objects will appear as the description progresses and those features of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts on which protection is desired will be set forth in a succinct manner in the appended claims.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is bad to the following specification and the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denote like .parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a cabinet embodying the present invention, one of the filing drawers being in an, accessible position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the cabinet with the top 'in closed position and parts being omitted. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front elevation thereof. Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical sections on lines 4.4 and 5-5, respectively, of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken along line 6-6 of Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is a fragmentary perspective of a filing drawer with its retainer cover in an operative position.

The cabinet or case body 1 is provided on its inner side walls with a plurality of vertically arranged guides 2 to receive therebetween the filing drawers or trays 3 which, when within the cabinet, are preferably arranged in inclined or step-like order to facilitate the handling operation. A series of stop-blocks 4 limit the inward movement of the drawers and support the latter in the order above mentioned.

Oppositely extending trunnions or pivots 5 of the drawers engage in vertical grooves 6 between the guides 2 and upon lifting a drawer, as by handles 3, the respective Anti-friction rollers 11 on the, sides and adand adapted to trunnions engage in'bear'ings 7 of'the relnforcing metallic plates 8 to permit of the drawer being swung to the position disclosed in Fig. 1. Brackets 9, mounted on the front side of the cabinet by gravity lock h nges 10 whereby thebrackets will remain 1n a set position, serve as a rest for the foremost drawers in their accessible position.

jacent the lower or inner end of the drawers and similar devices 12, between the guides 2, facilitate the removal and replacing operations of the drawers, as is obvious. Hingedly fixed to the rear or inner ,wall of each drawer is a retainer frame or cover 13 having one end of its forward strip or edge 13 cut away to permit of an unobstructed view of the designating indicia on the records filed. A plurality of posts or pins 14: depend from the strip 13' and a number of similar means 15 project up from the forward edge of the drawer, said posts piercing the edge of the records for holding the latter in position and also serve in spacing the frame from the bottom of the drawer. When desirous of seeing a record other than the top sheet, the upper records are raised with the retainer frame 13, which 85 is preferably supported in opened position by the top 16 vof the cabinet, and retained in' proper order on the frame by the posts 14.

The top 16 is retained opened by folding braces 17 and when closed may be used as a writing desk, or the like.

When the drawers are within the cabinet, the retainer covers are held against the drawers by transverse bars 18 which connect opposing guides 2.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United. States of America. is

1. A filing cabinet comprising a cabinet body having grooves therein, a plurality of filing drawers mounted for sliding movement in the body, a plate provided with a series of bearings spaced lengthwise thereof and disposed across one end of the grooves whereby the bearings will constitute continuations of the latter, and outstanding trunnions on the drawers slidable in the grooves engage in the bearings of the plate to permit of swinging the drawer to an angular position in the latter from the grooves.

2. A filing cabinet comprising a. cabinet subsequent to remov- 11o body having vertical grooves therein, a plurality of filing drawers mounted for sliding movement in the body, a plate provided with a series of notches spaced along one edge 5 thereof and disposed across the upper end of the grooves, whereby the notches will constitute continuations of the latter, and projecting trunnions on the lower or inner end of the drawers slidable in the grooves,

10 and adapted to engage in the notches in the plate whereby the drawers may be swung to an angular position subsequent to removing the latter from the grooves.

In testimony whereof we aifix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR G. GILBREATH.

SAMUEL T. WILLIAMSON. Witnesses:

D. S. FOTHERINGHAM,

AGNES JOHNSTON. 

